Applicability of Job Diagnostic Survey to Administrative Positions in University Physical Education and Sport

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Cleave
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletics ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
Worker Attitudes ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Job Characteristics Model ◽  
Job Diagnostic Survey ◽  
The Relationship

Although administrators of physical education and sport programs have been the focus of considerable research, one area that has been neglected is the design of administrative positions and its influence on the levels of satisfaction and motivation experienced by administrators. This study was undertaken to address this deficiency. The relationship between job design and worker attitudes and behaviors has been examined in business and industry for many years and a number of models have been developed. The Job Characteristics Model of job design developed by Hackman and Oldham (1976, 1980) provided the theoretical framework for the study. The sample for the study consisted of administrators in physical education, intercollegiate athletics, and recreation/intramural programs in selected Canadian and American universities. The analyses showed significant differences between this sample and the general working population with respect to perceptions of job design and levels of satisfaction and motivation. Gender and nationality had minimal effect on the administrators' perceptions.

scholarly journals Job Design and Sustainability of Tertiary Institutions in South East, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Onwuchekwa, Faith Chidi ◽  
Okoli, Chibuokem Helen ◽  
Ifeanyi, Titus Tochukwu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Employee Empowerment ◽  
Workplace Flexibility ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Job Characteristics Model ◽  
Task Identity ◽  
The Relationship

Tertiary institutions in southeast Nigeria have in the past been bedeviled with the challenge of achieving optimal performance as a result of seemingly poor job structure as exemplified by low skill variety and poor task identity which has lead to various industrial actions. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between job design and sustainability of tertiary institutions in South East, Nigeria. The study was anchored on Hackman and Oldham's (1975) Job Characteristics Model (JCM). The population of the study consisted of 9240 academic and non-academic staff of six tertiary institutions in South East, Nigeria. Taro Yamane formula was used to determine the sample size of 383. Hypotheses were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient at 5% significance level. The findings confirmed that there was a significant correlation between skill variety and employee empowerment and between task identity and workplace flexibility. It was therefore recommended among others, that managers of tertiary institutions in the South-East should take a proactive role in designing jobs that take care of the main job characteristics in the institutions.

Mediating and Moderating Effects in Job Design

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Johns ◽  
Jia Lin Xie ◽  
Yongqing Fang
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Moderator Effects ◽  
Job Characteristics Model ◽  
Reward Contingencies ◽  
The Relationship

A test of the complete Job Characteristics Model (Hackman & Oldham, 1976, 1980) was conducted, with particular emphasis on the little-investigated mediating and moderating effects specified by the model. Three hundred lower level managers provided questionnaire data. Results indicated that the model's psychological states generally mediated the relationship between job characteristics and outcomes. However; the correspondence between the job characteristics and the states was not precisely that specified by the model, all states were not needed to predict most outcomes, and common method variance was a concern. Moderator effects due to personal characteristics, context satisfaction, and petformance-reward contingencies were observed at several locations in the model, a number in an opposite direction from that predicted by the model.

A Test of the Job Characteristics Model with Administrative Positions in Physical Education and Sport

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Cleave
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Administrative Positions ◽  
Job Characteristics Model ◽  
Design Characteristics

This study examined the appropriateness of using Hackman and Oldham's (1976, 1980) Job Characteristics Model with a sample of university physical education and sport administrators (NV = 217). The Job Characteristics Model specifies certain relationships between the design characteristics of a job and the levels of motivation, satisfaction, and productivity experienced by the worker. It also considers the effect of individual differences in moderating the relationships. The results of this study showed strong support for only some components of the theoretical model. In particular some relationships involving growth satisfaction and autonomy were not as predicted by the model. In addition, individual differences did not function as moderators of the relationships in the model. While theoretical models can be useful in helping to explain phenomena in the field of sport management, researchers in the field must continue to test the applicability of models developed in other fields.

How Achievement Motivation Influences the Attitude of Schoolchildren and Students Towards Independent Sports Activities

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
A.S. Grachev
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Education Material ◽  
State Technological ◽  
Technological University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sports Activities

Summary Purpose: to determine the relationship between achievement motivation and the attitudes of schoolchildren of 11-17 years old and students of 18-21 years old to independent sports and passing control standards in the discipline \”Physical Education\”. Material: 1576 schoolchildren (boys n = 780 and girls n = 796) of comprehensive schools of Belgorod, Stary Oskol, Stroitel and Shebekino (Belgorod region, Russian Federation) and 246 students (men n = 127) were surveyed. and women n = 119) Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov (Belgorod, Russian Federation). The questionnaire consisted of three blocks of questions: the 1st block of questions - questions aimed at determining the age, sex, place of study of the respondent; 2nd block of questions - 8 questions, allowing to assess the attitude of the respondent to independent sports activities and the desire to take control standards of the discipline Y’Physical Education\”; 3rd block of questions is a test of 20 questions, developed by A.A. Rean, to assess the motivation to achieve success and avoid failures. Results: the motivation for avoiding failures was diagnosed in 5% male students and 10% female students. A direct correlation between achievement motivation and the attitude of schoolchildren and students towards independent sports activities and passing control standards has been revealed. Conclusions: there are no differences in the correlation between the relationship between achievement motivation and attitudes toward independent sports by gender. Schoolchildren and students with motivation to achieve regular self-exercise. Schoolchildren and students with a pronounced motivation for avoiding failures prefer a passive way of life. They do not want to pass standards on the discipline \”Physical Education\” and do not go in for sports on their own.

The relationship between physical education and sports school students' positive thinking skill levels and their attitudes to learning: Comparison by gender and years of exercising

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 754-760
Author(s):  
Alparslan Ince ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
School Students ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study was to compare the relationship between physical education and sports high school students' positive thinking skill levels and attitudes of learning in terms of gender and years of doing sports. The study is a descriptive method, one of the quantitative research methods. The study group consisted of 280 (age: 20.98 ± 1.390) university students from School of Physical Education and Sports in Ordu university. As a result, it was concluded that the students' positive thinking skills were at a high level, and the nature of learning, anxiety, expectation, and openness to learning sub-dimensions of the attitude tolearning scale were at high levels. It was concluded that there is a statistically significant and positive relationship between the nature of learning, Expectation, and openness to learning, and positive thinking skill from sub-dimensions of the attitude to learning scale, but there is a negatively significant relationship between anxiety and positive thinking skills

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